Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
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